Evils of War

Daily life in Baghdad often traumatic - Yahoo! News

This is a story of a woman who lost her three sons in Iraq.  How is she faring?  What are her hopes - the ordinary hopes of Iraqis - for their country and the future?  There is still no peace.  In a place "where people blow themselves up in public".  Sit back and listen to the victims - the ordinary peace-loving Iraqis, who are like you and me.  Except that they were born in a place of strife.

BAGHDAD - In 2003, when Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq, a woman named Hamdiyah al-Dulaimi had three handsome sons. They had grown into good men with wives and families. They were the shining accomplishments of her life.

In hindsight, it was a much better life than she realized at the time. Most certainly better than it is now, four years after the fall of Baghdad.

(Click the above link for full story by BUSHRA JUHI and DEBORAH HASTINGS, Associated Press Writers)